Award-winning Kingston writer Steven Heighton will read from his work Feb. 11 as part of Trent's Writers Reading series.

        The reading will take place in Peter Robinson College senior common room at 8 p.m.

        Heighton has published three books of poetry, including the 1995 Governor General's Award finalist The Ecstasy of Skeptics. His two short story collections, Flight Paths of the Emperor (a 1993 Trillium Award finalist) and On Earth As It Is, are published in England by Granta Books.

        He received the Gerald Lampert Prize for Stalin's Carnival and a gold medal for fiction at the National Magazine Awards. His fiction has been translated into French, German and Spanish.

        In 1997, he published a collection of essays, The Admen Move on Lhasa, which writer and literary commentator Alberto Manguel describes as "bright, quick, curious, quirky -- somewhere between memoirs, musings and late-night café conversations."